The Drosophila doublesex female-specific splicing enhancer consists of two classes of regulatory elements, six 13-nucleotide repeat sequences, and a single purine-rich element (PRE). Here, we show that the Drosophila regulatory proteins Transformer (Tra) and Transformer 2 (Tra2) recruit different members of the SR family of splicing factors to the repeats and the PRE. The complexes formed on th...

[Purpose] This study examined the effects of closed chain exercises performed with local vibration applied to an unstable support surface on the thickness and length of the transverse abdominis. [Subjects] The subjects were 64 healthy university students who were randomly assigned to a bridge exercise with sling and vibration group (BESVG, n=30) and a bridge exercise with sling group (BESG, n=3...

In order to ensure continued availability of high-performance network for the nation's research and education community and to continue supporting the development of new high performance Internet capabilities, the National Science Foundation (NSF) established the very-high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) through a cooperative agreement with MCI telecommunications Corporation. To ensure qu...

OBJECTIVE To assess activity of transversus abdominis (TrA) and obliquus internus abdominis (OI) muscles during classical Pilates exercises performed correctly and incorrectly, and with or without equipment. DESIGN Repeated-measures descriptive study. SETTING Pilates studio. PARTICIPANTS A volunteer sample of women (n=18) and men (n=8), mean age +/- SD (43+/-14y), with more than 6 months ...

Human embryonic kidney (K293) cells transfected with a mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter-luciferase reporter construct (pHH-Luc) were utilized to investigate the potential effects of trans-retinoic acid (tRA), either by itself or in combination with glucocorticoid (GC) hormones, on a well-characterized, GC-sensitive transcriptional response. tRA or the synthetic GC hormone dexamethasone...

Jee-Hyong LEE, Keon-Myung LEE, KyoungA SEONG, ChangBum KIM, and Hyung LEE-KWANG Dept. of Computer Science, KAIST ( Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ), Yousung, Taejon, 305-701, Seoul Korea Abstract. This paper presents a tra c fuzzy controller for a set of intersections and its simulation results. To control a set of intersection we distribute controls to the controller at eac...

The investigation of tra c ow problems has a long tradition and various methods and approaches have been applied. In this review we focus on statistical mechanics and nonequilibrium aspects. It is shown that many properties of tra c ow can be modelled successfully by using rather simple cellular automaton models. Analytical methods for the investigation of discrete models are presented in some ...

Ethernet continues to be one of the most popular LAN technologies. Due to the low price and robustness resulting from its wide acceptance and deployment, there has been an attempt to build Ethernet-based real-time control networks for manufacturing automation. However, it is di cult to build a realtime control network using the standard UDP or TCP/IP and Ethernet, because the Ethernet MAC proto...

The transformer locus (tra) produces an RNA processing protein that alternatively splices the doublesex pre-mRNA in the sex determination hierarchy of Drosophila melanogaster. Comparisons of the tra coding region among Drosophila species have revealed an unusually high degree of divergence in synonymous and nonsynonymous sites. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the tra gene will be p...

Tranilast (Tra) reduces intracardiac interstitial fibrosis in the animal models of hypertensive heart failure and diabetic cardiomyopathy by inhibiting cardiac fibroblasts. The present study examined whether Tra has long-term effects on the cardiac remodeling in the remote area of the left ventricle (LV) following myocardial infarction (MI) in the rat. Treatment with Tra (n=40; 150 mg/kg twice ...